Automatic advertising device



W.-H-. KUHNE. AUTOMATIC ADVERTISING-DEUCE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.24-, 192l- Patented July 4, 1922.1

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WILLIAIJI H. KUHNE, OI WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

AUTOMATIC ADVERTISING DEVICE.

earner- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 4, 1922.

' a citizen of the United States, residing at -Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut have invented a new and useful Improvement in Automatic Advertising Devices; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent, in-

Fig.1 a view in front elevation of an automaticdisplay device constructed in accordance with my invention, showing its front card-holder or advertising-frame in its display position.

Fig. 2 an enlarged plan view of the device with the cover of its case removed.

Fig. 8 a view of the device in vertical, longitudinal section on the line 3 3 of Figure 2.

F ig. 4 a broken detail view showing the relation of one of the pitmen to its disk at the beginning of the movement of the said pitman for lifting the advertising-frame with which it is operatively connected.

Fig. 5 a similar view, showing the position of the pitman with relation to the disk at the time the frame is in its fully elevated position, in which it is supported by the engagement of the pitman with the disk.

Fig. 6 a detached perspective view of one of the pitmen.

Fig. 7 a detached view in of the disks.

Fig. 8 a detached view in elevation of one of the frames on a scale corresponding to Figure 1.

Fig. 9 a view in vertical transverse section of one of the frames on the line-9-9 of Figure 8.

My invention relates to an improved automatic advertising device in which a plurality of card-holders or advertising-frames are successively brought into view by the opera tion of the device by power derived from the movement ofadoor, the object being to provide a simple compact'and attractive advertising device of the character described.

With these ends in view my invention consists in an automatic advertising elevation of one device having certain details of construction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention as herein shown, I employ a gang of twelve oblong, rectangular, horizontallyarranged card-. holders or advertising-frames '10 each enclosing an advertising field or card 11 and provided at their respective ends with complementary depending guides 12 and with a centrally-arranged depending rack 13. The said frames are arranged to slide up and down in the grooves 14 of two corrugated plates 15 facing each other and secured to the inner faces of the end walls of a compartment 16 in the right-hand end of the case 17 in which the device is enclosed.

Each of the said frames is provided with a separately organized operating-mechanism,

each having a gear-sector 18, the gear sectors of the respective mechanisms meshing into the racks of the respective frames. The said gear-sectors are mounted so as to rock independently of each other upon a horizontal shaft 19 located in the lefthand end of the chamber 16. Each of the gear-sectors isprovided with an ofi-set 20 by means of which it is connected with a sheetmetal pitman 21, the opposite end of which is formed with a laterally offset operatinghead 22, consisting of a leaf bent into inverted U-shaped crosse-section and formed in its bowed top, with a wide shoulder receiving slot 23 virtually dividing the operating-head into a driving-member 24 and a releasing-member 25. For co-action with the respective pitmen, I employ an equal number of disks 26 each having a squared central opening 27, by means of which they are mounted upon a squared shaft 28 horizontally-arranged in a chamber 29 formed in the right-hand end of the case 17 the said disks being spaced apart upon the shaft 28 by means of spacing-collars 30, whereby the respective disks are maintained in alignment with the respective pitmen. Each disk is provided upon its periphery with a single tooth-like operating-notch 31, these notches being cut in the disks in appropriate positions, so that, when all of the disks are mounted upon the shaft, their notches will succeed each other in the direction in which v the shaft is turned and togther form a comnumber of teeth corresponding to the num-.

,ber of disks and hence to the numberof advertising-frames. This wheel 32 islopera- I ted in-step-by-step rotation, by means of a reciprocating driving-bar 33 retracted by a spring 34 and moving back and forth through a bearing 35 in the left-hand end of the case 17 The projecting outer end of the said bar 33 is pivotally connected with one end of a driving-link 36, the oppo: site end of which is pivoted to a bracket 37 in the corresponding endof the case 17. The said link 36 is formed with a socket 38,receiving one of the rounded ends of a short plunger 39 having bearing in the jamb 40 of the door 41 chosen for the operation of the device, the opposite end of the plunger 39 normally projecting into the doorway 42, so that, when the door is swung upon its hinge 4.3 into its closed position, the inner edge 44 of the door will engage with the plunger 39, and by forcing the same outwardly, cause the operation of the driving bar'33 against the tension 'of the spring 3t,"whereby the ratchet-wheel 32 is caused to move one step, which is to say, for a distance represented by one-twelfth of its circumference, or one tooth.

' Under the construction described, one of the advertising-frames will always be in its elevated'position for the display of the advertisingcard carried by it, whatever that may be.

I or convenience in describing the operation ofthe device the frames have been additionally designated by the letters a to Z inclusive, running from front to rear, so

that the front frame is lettered a, and so on. As shown, the frame a is in its elevated position. Supposing the parts of the device to be in this position, thepitman connected with the front frame a will be resting. upon its complementary disk, in the position shown in, Figure 5, the pitman, by means of its engagement with the dislnsupporting the frame a in its elevated position.

Now at the beginning of the rotation of the ratchet-wheel'32, which takes place just as the door is swinging into its fully closed position, the periphery of the said disk will engage with the lifting-member 25 of the operating-head 22 and gradually lift the head until the driving-member 24 of the said of frame 6, causing the said pitman to move from right to left and swing the sector of frame Z; into its elevated position and thus lift the frame Z2 into its display position, in which it is held, as described for frame a, until the door is again opened and closed. In this way the frames are successively elevated to view inan endless cycle. The pe: riod ofthe display of any one frame will, of course, be measured by the time intervening between the opening and the closing of the door; 7

I claim: v I 1. In an automatic advertising device, the combination with a gang of independent, vertically-movable advertisingframes, each having a depending rack; of aqseries ofcomplementary, frame-actuating mechanisms each having a gear meshing into the depending rack of its complementary frame and. located below thesame, and means operated I by the movement of a door for successively operating the said frame-actuating mecha nisms for the successive lifting and exposure of the said frames between which the gears are positioned to rise as the framesare suc cessively elevated' V 2. In an automatic advertising device, the combination with a gang of independent, vertically-movable advertising-frames, each nisms, each having a gear meshing into the dependlng rack of its complementary frame and located below the same; and means operated by the movement of a door forsuccessively operating the said gears for the successive lifting of the said frames between which the gears are positioned to rise'as the vframes are successively elevated.

having a depending rack, of two corrugated .105

mecha 3,. "In an automatic advertising device, the

combination with a gang ofindependentlv-i operable, vertically-movable card-holders,

each having a centrally-depending rack; of

complementary actuating-mechanisms each comprising a gear, a notched disk, and a pitman having a slotted operating-headof U-shaped cross-section riding upon the disk for co-action with the T notch thereof and f connected with-the said gear above the center thereof, and mechanism operated by door-power for operating the said actuatingmech'anisms in succession, thesaid gearsbeing located directly below the frames in specification in the presence of two subspaced arrangement for rising between the scribing witnesses. same as they are lifted, and the said disks being positioned with respect to the gears WILLIAM KUHNE' 5 for the riding of the pitman upon their Witnesses:

upper edges. MALCOLM P. NICHOLS,

In testimony whereof, I have signed this GEORGE DUDLEY SEYMOUR. 

